Re: [P2P-F] Very important trend for cosmo-local production

23 Jan 2020


      wow, what synchronicity, I am very enthusiastic indeed about their vision,
which you have yourself beautifully formulated!

here a copy of their emails mentioned in the report,

if you connect with them, thanks for mentioning my interest for getting in
touch as well,

see here for the emails:


   - Lorenza Victoria Salati
   <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Lorenza_Victoria_Salati> holds a masters
   degree in Political Sciences (with focus on economic history and visual
   anthropology) and a specialisation at the School of Cinema and New Media of
   Milan. She has developed methods derived using visual anthropology as a
   support to the self-perception of individuals as change makers. Lorenza was
   formerly a documentary ﬁlmmaker and explored agricultural and ethnic issues
   in Africa (Burkina Faso, Mozambique, Senegal). Since then she has been
   considering the new communication needs that have arisen from the
   opportunities oﬀered by the Web 3.0. She has also investigated new forms of
   expression and innovative methods of storytelling. She has made many
   documentaries and is the co-author of several books. Lorenza is the
   co-founder of the Italian ﬁrm Osun WES and is the co-owner of a German
   based company specialising in technological tools to support collaborative
   projects. She is one of the founders and vice-president of R84 Multifactory
   Mantova."

Email: [email protected]


   - Giulio Focardi <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Giulio_Focardi> holds a
   masters degree in Economic History and his main topics of professional and
   research interest are in the ﬁelds of Community Economy, Collaborative
   Economy and Social Economy. He promotes urban regeneration through the
   creation of value chains by developing local projects involving
   micro-enterprises, artisans, artists and cultural managers. He has worked
   as a consultant, mostly in the HR, strategic development, and
   multidimensional planning. He has developed various mathematical models of
   social systems and is the co-author of several books. His working method
   starts from the systemic analysis of situations, developing intervention
   models through a trace-back process, starting from the phenomena to
   reaching to the causes. Since 2009 he has been interested in researching
   organisational models that contribute to guaranteeing artists economic
   sustainability and, at the same time, freedom to research and experiment.
   He is the Co-Founder and CEO of Osun WES, a consulting ﬁrm specialising in
   developing companies as collaborative systems, and is one of the founders
   and president of the board of R84Association in Mantova."

Email: [email protected]

On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 3:37 PM Evi Swinnen <[email protected]> wrote:
...
Dear all
I read the book this week.
It is very interesting. Very practical also, what I like. A lot of the
places they mention I visited or at least know what they do. Their movie is
also very well made and finally something else than talking about shared
machines and fablabs but about people, diversity, new economy and
innovation.
Their vision is resembling one of our conclusions going through different
iterations of the school of commons development. More specific on the
definition of resources in commons.
One of the conclusions we came up during our last sprint on commoning arts
with the group of artists/activists was that we misinterpret resources as
fixed and scarce. (that this is a market perspective). That the true
resources are emerging from relationships and interaction and that building
resources means, maintaining and caring. The researchers of multifactory
state that exactly that is the difference between community economy and
shared economy. That insight I can support from our practice and
experience. It will be incorporated in the school of commons module on
'resources' .
I'm seriously thinking to build our Schuur as a multifactory or at least
get a lot of inspiration from the research in Italy.
Thank you Michel for bringing it into my eyesight.
Trying to get in touch with the writers, so if you can help?
All the best
Evi
Op do 23 jan. 2020 09:05 schreef jose ramos <[email protected]>:
...
looks great Michel
will have a look
On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 6:48 PM Michel Bauwens <[email protected]>
wrote:
...
<https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Multifactory_Models_for_the_Community_Economy#mw-head>
<https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Multifactory_Models_for_the_Community_Economy#p-search>
*Very important, 'this is it' in terms  of (one of the important) forms
taken by cosmo-local production; this report counts 120 initiatives in
Europe alone,*
*summarized at *
https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Multifactory_Models_for_the_Community_Economy
*Michel*
** Article: The rise of community economy : from coworking spaces to the
multifactory model. By Lorenza Victoria Salati, Giulio Focardi. -
Sarajevo : Udruženje Akcija, 2018.*
URL =
https://www.academia.edu/41043179/THE_RISE_OF_COMMUNITY_ECONOMY_From_Coworki...
"We want to understand and to show this new idea of workplaces: local,
fast, easy, versatile, sustainable under a social and environmental point
of view. ... The result of this research is the Multifactory Model, a model
of intervention designed to be a guide for all those who want to create,
from scratch, a shared workspace based on concepts of collaboration, mutual
aid, social innovation, sustainability, and the free ﬂow of knowledge"
Contents [hide
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]
- 1 The Context
   <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Multifactory_Models_for_the_Community_Economy#The_Context>
   - 2 Description
   <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Multifactory_Models_for_the_Community_Economy#Description>
   - 3 The Questionnaire
   <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Multifactory_Models_for_the_Community_Economy#The_Questionnaire>
   - 4 Contents
   <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Multifactory_Models_for_the_Community_Economy#Contents>
   - 5 Excerpts
   <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Multifactory_Models_for_the_Community_Economy#Excerpts>
      - 5.1 The Multifactory Model
      <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Multifactory_Models_for_the_Community_Economy#The_Multifactory_Model>
      - 5.2 The Invisible Factory
      <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Multifactory_Models_for_the_Community_Economy#The_Invisible_Factory>
      - 5.3 Community Economy
      <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Multifactory_Models_for_the_Community_Economy#Community_Economy>
   - 6 Case Study
   <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Multifactory_Models_for_the_Community_Economy#Case_Study>
      - 6.1 R84 Multifactory Mantova
      <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Multifactory_Models_for_the_Community_Economy#R84_Multifactory_Mantova>
   - 7 More information
   <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Multifactory_Models_for_the_Community_Economy#More_information>
      - 7.1 Bibliography
      <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Multifactory_Models_for_the_Community_Economy#Bibliography>
      - 7.2 Video
      <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Multifactory_Models_for_the_Community_Economy#Video>
      - 7.3 Author Bios
      <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Multifactory_Models_for_the_Community_Economy#Author_Bios>
The Context[edit
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By Lorenza Victoria Salati and Giulio Focardi:
"We reject the distracting pessimism of those who see a grey future
subjugated to global and sprawling multinationals, but also of those who
uncritically superimpose the concept of “enterprise”on the stereotyped
image of seventeenth-century steelworks and consider every entrepreneur as
a ruthless and predatory subject. The reality is very diﬀerent and is made
up of innovative and environmentally friendly business models, and new
sustainable companies led by a new social class that perceives itself as a
driving force for social change and takes up the traits of crafts-people,
artists, professionals and entrepreneurs, hybridizing and adapting them to
the times. These pioneers of a new way of doing business are among us and
successfully lead companies and projects based on concepts of community,
social inclusion, professional exchange,mutual help, and responsibility
towards the community.How did we come to these conclusions? By exploring,
touching, and traveling to discover innovative projects. Between 2012 and
2018 we visited over 120 diﬀerent workspaces, travelling across 20
countries and three continents in search of successful models, inspirations
and experiences.We made traveling the core of our research, adopting an
ethnographic approach and using many theoretical tools from visual
anthropology and participatory anthropology. To some places we went only
once, to others we went back regularly. At some we stayed half a day, at
others for months at a time.
*The result of this research is the Multifactory Model, a model of
intervention designed to be a guide for all those who want to create, from
scratch, a shared workspace based on concepts of collaboration, mutual aid,
social innovation, sustainability, and the free ﬂow of knowledge*.
...
Since 2014 we have begun proposing the Multifactory Model to both
institutions and to private individuals as a tool for urban regeneration
and as a means of generating local job opportunities. Some of the resulting
negotiations have come to an end,while others are still ongoing. Between
2014 and 2016 we spent several months working at FreiLand, Potsdam, to
continue reﬁning the model. In the meantime we have visited many other
spaces across Europe and we have begun to lay the foundations of the
Multifactory Network and for the development of the ‘Invisible Factory’, a
project designed to scale the Multifactory Model. The Multifactory Network
is a project aimed at fostering and enabling direct collaborations between
members of workspaces in diﬀerent countries. The Multifactory Network aims
to re-move obstacles in terms of design, sustainability and work-life
balance that usually makes it diﬃcult for artists,
craftspeople,professionals and small economic players to travel and develo
international projects. The idea of the Invisible Factory ﬁrst came to us
at MAGE in 2013. Currently our focus is to consolidate a transnational
structure of companies, artists and professionals linked by stable
relationships that is able to imagine, design, develop and produce complex
products and services, utilising horizontal coordination between small
local producers. Our research continues on other bases to the current day,
our aim being the implementation of the Multifactory Network and reﬁning
the development of the Invisible Factory. Between 2012 and 2018 we visited
a total of 120 spaces of all kinds in Italy, Germany, Spain, Portugal, the
UK, the Czech Republic,Slovenia, Poland, the Netherlands, Croatia, Greece,
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, the United States and Ecuador. "
Description[edit
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This book is an examination of a collaborative production space in
Milan, called Mage, and a quest to find similar places abroad:
"MAGE in Sesto San Giovanni (Milan), also known in Italy as the “Town of
Factories”. MAGE is an industrial building of 1700 square meters, formerly
used as warehouses. At MAGE now you can ﬁnd 17 small companies and/or
associations: crafts makers, sewers, dressmakers, two bag factories, a
bikefactory, laser cutting, 3D printing, photographers, architects,
jewellers, ﬁlmmakers, and artists. We produce goods, ideas and culture
since 2010.
...
What emerged from the interviews was that our interviewees viewed MAGE
as more than just a collaborative space. It was areal organisational
structure based on exchange, mutuality and sharing. To some extent, it
seemed as if these diﬀerent artists,companies and craftspeople, working
horizontally together,were part of a single, large “invisible factory”, in
which everyone could represent a company function.Perhaps MAGE was a unique
experience, an anomaly, a particular combination of factors that had led to
that result. Or perhaps, if that structure had taken place, there were
reasons linked to a more general change and it was the expression of
asocial change, related to people who began to have other values and other
priorities than in the past.In any case, if it had been possible to
identify the basic mechanisms underlying the relationships between the
diﬀerent components of the system, to understand which ones were functional
with respect to an increase in the overall level of competences, it might
have been possible to identify solutions to make these mechanisms
reproducible, so as to deﬁne a model that could be exported.
...
FROM ROME WE TRAVELLED TO POLLINO, FROM POLLINO TO NAPLES,FROM NAPLES TO
SALERNO, FROM SALERNO WE JOURNEYED TO EBOLI, AND FINALLY, AFTER MANY HARD
MILES, WE REACHED OUR DESTINATION, LAURIA. Here, we would get to know the
farmers who were participating in the Micro Supply Chain project.
...
To continue with the work, we decided to follow a double path. On one
side, we decided to propose the same interviews to a group of farmers from
the South of Italy, in Basilicata, who were all part of a project meant to
create a local supply chain, to see what the answers would be in a totally
diﬀerent place from Milan. From diﬀerent people, in a diﬀerent context, we
expected that we would receive diﬀerent answers.On the other hand, we
decided to look for a space outside Italy. That period was economically
very diﬃcult in Italy, so we speculated it might only be the lack of money
that was pushing people to get together and then, once they had started to
earn enough money again, all these experiences would be doomed to disappear.
...
After Pollino, we anticipate results in London. We needed to understand
if, in a land of social experimentation, we would ﬁnd something similar to
what we had observed to date in Italy. Our departure was scheduled for
February 27th 2013. We had the ticket, but not destination. Yet! Our
journey into the world of shared workspaces has only just begun: we needed
to focus ourresearch and we decided to concentrate on spaces that had the
three characteristics that we considered important:First of all, they
should be places where something concrete is being produced: objects,
prototypes, small scale production. They could also be somewhere to
accommodate ‘workers of the intangible’, those who might only need a desk
and a computer,but a productive element would be mandatory. Then, they
should be places characterised by broad heterogeneity; young and old,
artists and craftspeople, start-ups and established companies, traditional
craftspeople and 3D printers,architects and cyclists, local companies and
companies with aglobal outlook.Finally, they should be community projects.
We are not prescriptive about which governance structure would be
acceptable. Be it privately owned, perhaps with an established management
structure or typically anarchic, our only concern is that the bodies or
individuals using the space should be an active part of the space’s
governance. The ethos of ‘from below’or ‘grassroots’is non negotiable.
On 9 February we contacted Building BloQs, a new-born space in the
North-East suburbs of London"
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